Gunmen stormed into the house of the Vega family in October
2008 in the state of Tamaulipas.The wife hid in the bathroom with her children and called the emergency number, 066,
to alert the authorities.

Imageof the arrestsby the Navyin June 2011ofsix menwho have neverreappeared

Local police illegally detained 8 friends who were coming
back from hunting in Zacatecas in December 2011.Two escaped.Hours later, security cameras located in a gas station captured the
police officers delivering the men to unidentified men.Seven police officers were indicted for
collaborating with organized crime.No
trial has yet begun for the officers detained and nothing is known about the
whereabouts of the 6 remaining friends.

The wife of José Fortino Martínez darted to her car to
follow a convoy of 14 vehicles, some with the logos of the navy, who minutes
before had raided her house and taken her husband without a warrant.The police operation made several stops
around Nuevo Laredo (Located in the north part of Tamaulipas).At a gas station, the wife asked one of the
officers about the whereabouts of her husband.The officer threatened to shoot her if she continued following
them.That night on June 2011 they took
6 men.Photos from the families prove of
the involvement by the military.The Navy
acknowledged that they moved them to the town of Miguel Alemán in the same
state “for their safety”.Today, their
whereabouts are still unknown.

The missing, are the greatly ignored from the previous 6
years in México.They are watching Felipe
Calderon, who is now currently a visiting fellow at Harvard University.Under his term there were at least 60,000
deaths (more deaths are reported elsewhere) during the ongoing drug war.More than 35,000 signatures were collected on
the website Change.org in a petition
saying that “Calderon is responsible for the deaths of thousands” and that he
should not be able to teach in the U.S.They describe him as a “man covered in blood.”All of the previous cases are documented in
the report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) The
Missing of Mexico, which includes the 249 disappearances since 2006, of
which 149 have benefited from the involvement of security forces.The report details the involvement in 20
cases from the Navy, 13 from the federal police, and 95 from local police.In the case of the Navy, the paper proves
that there is a pattern that repeats in all interventions, a modus operandi
(method of operation) which suggests that higher authorities were aware of the
situation (The supreme commander of the military is the president of the
Republic (Mexico)).

The executive director of the Americas by the Human Rights
Watch, José Miguel Vivanco, said that these are just a few among “thousands of
cases”.The report, which in addition to
the forced disappearances, denounces the mistreatment towards the families of
the disappeared and shows little or no interest from local and federal
authorities to solve the cases, puts the spotlight on the previous
administration, but challenges the new administration of Enrique Peña Nieto to
get into a well that hides thousands of names."Calderón’s government ignored the
case for 5 years with great arrogance.This government, which has no responsibility for what happened, has
shown sensitivity towards the issue” Vivanco said by phone before traveling
to the U.S., where he says that he will continue to monitor the government’s
performance.

Lía Limón

For now, the secretariat for Legal Affairs and Human Rights
of the Ministry of National Defense (Asuntos Jurídicos y de Derechos Humanos de
la Secretaría de Defensa Nacional), Lía Limón said on Wednesday of the existence
of a database with the names of 27,523 people missing between 2006 and
2012.The head of the Attorney General’s
Office, Murillo Karam said on Thursday that he has found an Attorney General (PGR)
“very pulverized” that needs to be “reassembled”, but vowed to search for the
missing.“I cannot commit to finding them dead or alive, but in what I can
commit to is that we will be doing everything in our power.”Similarly, the interior minister, Miguel
Angel Osorio, announced on Friday of the creation of a special commission to
search for missing persons, with the help of several institutions.

Sergio Aguayo

“The government of Peña
Nieto may be tempted to not investigate the disappearances because it is the
tradition; Mexico is the country of impunity.But there are various factors that can change things such as: a strong
movement of victims, international attention on Mexico, and the existence of a
strong flow of opinions against impunity in Mexico,” said Sergio Aguayo, a
professor at the Center for International Studies at the College of Mexico.“This
is a very serious case of violation of human rights.I think there are elements to open a judicial
inquiry against Calderon and his top officials,” he adds.In November 2011, a document with more than
20,000 signatures filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court of La
Haya towards the government at the time and to the drug traffickers “for war
crimes and crimes against humanity.”Aguayo, who did not sign the document at the time, ensured that if he
knew that there was an official list with thousands of names on it, then he
would have signed it.

Raúl
Plascencia Villanueva

The president of the National Commission of Human Rights, Raúl
Plascencia Villanueva, said that in recent years the Commission has found 30
cases of forced disappearances with the involvement of law enforcement and
believes that each of these should be resolved independently.“There
seems to be direct responsibility by some public servants, but I would not dare
make anymore wider accusations.”

The start of an investigation to solve the disappearances would
provide an alleviation in part of the frustration of many who been familiar
victims, the main victims of official inaction.In June 2011, 10 armed and masked men wearing Navy uniforms, took René
Azael Jasso, a 26 year old taxi driver,from his own house.It was the last time his family saw him.Oziel, the victim’s brother, says now: “We
have tried to be strong,really
strong.It feels really bad coming home
from work and seeing my mother crying, coming home from work and seeing my
dad sitting in a chair, without saying a single word.”

14 comments:

In Tamaulipas MANY of this missing people were taken by the cartels disguised as NAYY and ARMY personnel. Zetas and Golfos have been known in Mexico to dress as military to make people fear them, to make people protest to the goverment to remove the military from their plazas. Obviously the opossition in Mexico usually dismiss this in order to atack the goverment, I´m not saying all this cases were result of narcos dressed as military but I´m sure LOTS of them were...

BTW most of those who signed for La Haya to take Calderon to trial are the people of AMLO, the same guy who lost twice in the elections and cried fraud. This is more political than anything else. Sadly the families of those taken away, inocent or narco most of the time are the ones who suffer the most.

I have theory that some of these professional soldiers and naval infantry men might actually moonlight for the cartels. The army and navy are good places in which a person can learn to kill with proficiency, and some of these cartel members kill with proiciency.

February 24, 2013 at 9:42 PM "In Tamaulipas MANY of this missing people were taken by the cartels disguised as NAYY and ARMY personnel"Same thing i thought when i was reading it.The people are also getting wise to this kind of thing,maybe why the wife José Fortino Martínez decided to follow these particular ones,she felt something wasn't right?Thankfully she was unhurt,but how easy would it be for them to have taken her also?It is scary,but also very sad state of affairs for people to deal with.People co-operating with what they think are law enforcement,are nothing more than a crew picking targets up to kill?What can be done about this shit?@ValorxTruth.....Appreciate the efforts brother

My husband...father of our two children has been missing since 2011 feb 2 and I have yet to hear a single word from authorities. He called me that day and said mexican imigration had them stoped...at the time he was on a bus going to reynosa...they took the phone from him and it was a guy who spoke in english asking me questions of the amound of money he had and who had the money been sent to. I answered everything and then I asked him what was going on. The man on the phone said "its just an investigation". That was the last I spoke to my husband. I did my own investigation and even found the person with the phone that was taken from him and gave all the info to police..I went to bus station and was told he did get on the bus so I went to the arrival destination watched the security video and he never got off the bus. Then went to ever city inbetween nuevo laredo and reynosa and not a clue as to what happened to him. They said they would talk to bus driver to ask who and where he got taken off the bus. Still nothing...not even a body to lay to rest or a single reassuring word from anyone. The authorities are involved without a doubt and they do have people that dress to be officials. I want and need some answers before ill ever have some kind of peace if any at all.

i notice a lot of culeros comment on other posts, like who is taking over what plaza. but not much concern here. there's a lot of BB tuff guys in their mom's basements. where are the caballeros, the valient men, standing up for the disappeared. these culeros are not even tuff enough to make a comment against these crimes. a favorite pastime in mexico seems to be the cowards hiding behind mama's skirt. mexico is racking up a history of being among the worst of the worst in human rights violations, and particulary those involving violence. i sometimes wonder if i will disappear. all of the people of mexico seem to be afraid of something and for good reason.

damn who could the mexican people trust it seems that narcos do this a lot dress up like marina troopas thats scary.i bet the dissaperd are now by force narco sicarios i think they kidnapp them to force them to them to forget there family and towork for them. just sad.

Nowadays when the world thinks of Mexico it's says; Is that the "No Man's Land" between the states in the north and central America? What the f--k happened to Mexico in the 21st century?The rest of south america is moving forward and Mexico has been returned to 1910..!